The national teams of Venezuela and Colombia play fast and contact basketball, there will be no passing games with these teams at the Fonbet Friendship Cup, the defender of the Russian national team told . Alexander Shcherbenev .
The Friendship Cup will be held in Perm from August 21 to 25. Teams from Russia, Venezuela, Colombia, and Perm “Parma” will take part in the tournament. First, the teams will compete in a round-robin format. The final match and the third-place match will take place on Sunday.
— The preparation for the tournament went well. We worked productively at the training camp in Turkey. The conditions there are excellent. I am very happy that this is where the RFB decided to hold the collection. We worked on team interactions and gained playing condition after the holidays.
As for the upcoming matches, in our situation, all matches will be useful, it is good that there is at least one such opportunity and we can see our strengths and weaknesses in reality. I am sure that the games will be interesting and useful for all teams. It is important that in Perm the stands are always full at the matches, which is very nice. In turn, we will try to show everything that we have developed during this period and please the fans with a beautiful game and victories.
— What can you say about the national teams of Venezuela and Colombia?
— It is difficult to say anything about them yet: we will see in what compositions they will arrive and at what level of players they will be. But I heard that these teams play very fast and contact the basketball, and I think that there will be no passing games here, “Shcherbenev told .
The Friendship Cup matches can be watched on channel. Watch the live broadcast of the Russia-Venezuela match on August 21 from 16:55 (Moscow time).
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